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CHAPTER 9 – THE GREEK CASE: VENEZIS 
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but here we have two stories associated with an identified individual which are 
materially inconsistent.
The second example also comes from chapter 7 of the book, the scene in which the 
priests of Ayvali are thrown into the tobacco warehouse.
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. This is one of the very 
few episodes, which is related at greater length in the serialized original of 1924
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than in the book and, significantly, it is also one where there are material differences 
between the 1931 and the 1945 versions.
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. In the serialized original the appearance 
of the priests who are mostly fat and old provokes laughter. We are told that one of 
them, a deacon, used to send love songs to rich girls. Another one used to use 
“pretentious speech” (
ελληνικούρες
) to impress “silly women” (
γυναικούλες
). The 
priests scramble after tobacco, even ignoring the narrator’s warning that the cigarette 
paper consists of torn pages from the Bible. Finally, they thank him and give him 
many blessings from their “leprous heart”. In the book all this has been omitted. The 
1931 edition introduces them as “a vast assemblage of bellies” 
(ήταν ένα τεράστιο 
συγκρότημα από κοιλιές
),
 
who throw themselves onto the food. In 1945 they are 
presented as more pitiable. Instead of the ironic “holy federation of Ayvali”
 
(
ιερή 
ομοσπονδία του Αιβαλιού
) of 1931 they have become “the reverend fathers of 
Ayvali” (
γέροντες του Αιβαλιού
)
. 
Instead of falling down and screaming all together 
“to order” 
(επί παραγγελία)
, they now screamed “from pain” (
απ’ τους πόνους).
They 
no longer sniff the food, and their greed is excused by hunger. 
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Venezis 2008, 111-114. 
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Kampana
2(55), 1 April 1924 
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Venezis 1931, 76-78; Venezis 1945, 82-84. 

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